Leonard Pitts | 'Black blindness' victim? Story about shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis in Florida is obviously shaky

1:30 AM,
Dec. 5, 2012

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Leonard Pitts, Miami Herald

It is a kind of myopia that afflicts some of us - too many of us - whenever we gaze upon a dark-skinned man. It causes some of us - too many of us - to see things that are not there, and to miss things that are. Sometimes, it is fatal.

Such was the case for Amadou Diallo, the African immigrant who died in a hailstorm of gunfire in 1999 after police mistook his wallet for a gun. ...